# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-lu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:39:01.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-lu"
name: "Peter Lu"
slug: "peter-lu"
description: "Peter James Lu, PhD (陸述義) is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been recognized\nfor his discoveries of quasicrystal patterns in medieval Islamic architecture, early precision compound machines in ancient China, and man's first use of diamond in neolithic China."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.675810666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lu"
    title: "Peter Lu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88_(%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيتر لو (فيزيائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "پیتر لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lu"
    title: "Peter Lu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lu"
    title: "Peter Lu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "پیتر لو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2076743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump